Jisho

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4 strokes
Radical:
compare, compete
Parts:
Variants:
compare, race, ratio, Philippines
Kun:
くら.べる
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
329 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 比 【ヒ】 ratio, proportion, match, equal, equivalent, comparison, compared with ..., relative to ..., Philippines, explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)
  • 比較 【ヒカク】 comparison
  • 口径比 【コウケイヒ】 aperture ratio (inverse of the f-number), relative aperture
  • 正比 【セイヒ】 direct ratio

Kun reading compounds

  • 比べる 【くらべる】 to compare, to make a comparison, to compete, to vie

Readings

Japanese names:
い、 ぴっ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bi3, bi4
Korean:
bi

Spanish

  • comparación
  • proporción
  • relación
  • Filipinas
  • comparar

Portuguese

  • comparar
  • corrida
  • razão
  • Phillipines

French

  • comparer
  • compétition
  • proportion
  • Philippines
697 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
792 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
771 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
557 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2470 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
589 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
660 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
137 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
798 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
812 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
276 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1146 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
29 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
14 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
14 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
456 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16743 Morohashi
26 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3010 New Nelson (John Haig)
447 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
482 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
450 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
643 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1256 2001 Kanji
2m3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
1-3-2 SKIP code
2171.0 Four corner code
2111.0 Four corner code
1-40-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6bd4 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
condition, situation
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
490 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 実況 【ジッキョウ】 actual state (of things), real state, actual condition, real condition, actual scene, live, on-the-scene, reporting live, live coverage, live broadcasting, Let's Play (playthrough of a video game with player commentary)
  • 市況 【シキョウ】 market conditions

Kun reading compounds

  • 況して 【まして】 still more, to say nothing of, not to mention, still less
  • 況してや 【ましてや】 much less, to say nothing of
  • 況んや 【いわんや】 much more, not to mention, not to speak of, to say nothing of, let alone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuang4
Korean:
hwang

Spanish

  • condición
  • situación
  • estado de las cosas

Portuguese

  • condição
  • situação

French

  • situation
  • condition
  • encore moins
  • encore plus
  • à plus forte raison
1163 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
658 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2516 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1267 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
673 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
850 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
869 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1017 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1172 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
395 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
252 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
299 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
147 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17264 Morohashi
337 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3086 New Nelson (John Haig)
145 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
156 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1200 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
357 2001 Kanji
3a5.21 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
3611.0 Four corner code
1-22-23 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6cc1 Unicode hex code